Vet gets back dog tag he lost in World War II

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In this photograph provided by Jack Fanous, director of the G.I. Go Veterans Transition Center of Newark, Anne-Marie Crespo poses for while holding U.S. Army dog tags that belong to Willie Wilkins while standing in her garden where she dug them up in Istres, France, in 2001. Wilkins lost the tags while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944 and were returned to him by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)